Old Texts

I have scanned and made some old (well out of copyright!) text into web documents and pdf files. So far they are:

William Stukely, 1719; 'An Account of the Impression of the almost Entire Sceleton of a large Animal in a very hard Stone, lately presented the Royal Society, from Nottinghamshire; Philosophical Transactions, vol. 30, no. 360, pp. 963-968, 1 pl. (thanks to Mike Everhart for providing the correct reference - I was working from a photocopy)		on-line version pdf version
De la Beche and Conybeare, 1821; Notice of the discovery of a new Fossil Animal, forming a link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile, together -with general remarks on the Osteology of the Ichthyosaurus ; Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Second series, Vol 5 (4) pp 559-594		on-line version pdf version
Conybeare, 1824; On the Discovery of an almost perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus.; Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Second series; Vol 1; pp 381-389		on-line version pdf version
	Thomas Hawkins, 1834; 'Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri'; published by Relfe and Fletcher, London	on-line version pdf version
	Thomas Hawkins, 1840; 'The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons'; published by William Pickering, London	on-line version pdf version

I will be adding more as time and resources allow. If anyone has already converted any suitable documents into an electronic format and would like to include them here, please contact me.

Mike Everhart has made available a number of old (and not so old) texts relevant to plesiosaur research on his excellent web site, www.oceansofkansas.com.. This is a valuable resource especially for European workers who may not be able to access older American texts easily.

David J. Cicimurri and Michael J. Everhart, 2002 - Plesiosaur Stomach Contents and Gastroliths from the Pierre Shale (Middle Campanian) of Kansas. Please note: Do not cite or quote from this webpage. This is a early draft of the published manuscript, with additional or updated figures. Please refer to: Cicimurri, D. J. and M. J. Everhart, 2001. An elasmosaur with stomach contents and gastroliths from the Pierre Shale (late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Kansas Acad. Sci. Trans 104(3-4):129-143.

New York Herald, 1890The Cope -Marsh Feud:

Brown, B., 1904. Stomach stones and the food of plesiosaurs. Science, 20(501):184-185.

Cope, E. D., 1868. [On the structure of the vertebral column in Elasmosaurus]. Proc. Acad. Nat.Sci. Phil., 20:181. (for meeting of July 14, 1868)

Cope, E. D., 1868. Remarks on a new large enaliosaur. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phil., 20:92-93. (March 24, 1868)

Cope, E. D., 1868. On a new large enaliosaur. American Journal of Science. Series 2, 46(137):263-264. (September)

Cope, E. D., 1869. On the reptilian orders Pythonomorpha and Streptosauria. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XII 250-266.

Cope, E. D., 1869. [Remarks on extinct reptiles]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 20:313. (meeting of Dec. 1, 1868

Cope, E. D., 1869. [A resolution thanking Dr. Theophilus Turner for his donation of the skeleton of Elasmosaurus platyurus]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 20:314. (Meeting of December 15, 1868).

Cope, E. D., 1870. On Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope. Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, 50(148):140-141.

Cope, E. D., 1870. Additional note on Elasmosaurus. Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, 50(149):268-269.

Cope, E. D., 1872. On Kansas vertebrate fossils. Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 3, 3(13):65.

Cope, E. D., 1872. On the geology and paleontology of the Cretaceous strata of Kansas. Annual Report of the U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 5:318-349, Report for 1871.

Eastman, C. R., 1904. A recent paleontological induction. Science, N.S. 20(510):465-466.

Harlan, R. 1834. Notice of fossil bones found in the Tertiary formation of the State of Louisiana. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. iv pp. 397-403, pl. xx, fi.

Leidy, J., 1851. [Descriptions of a number of fossil reptilian and mammalian remains]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 5:325-327.

Leidy, J., 1854. [Remarks on exhibiting to the Society four vertebræ of a huge extinct Saurian from Arkansas]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 7(3):72, pl. II. (for meeting of May 23, 1954)

Leidy, J., 1865. Memoir on the extinct reptiles of the Cretaceous formations of the United States. Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. XIV (6) 1-135, pls. I-XX. (extract)

Leidy, J., 1870. [Remarks on Elasmosaurus platyurus]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 22:9-10. (at the meeting of March 8, 1870)

Leidy, J., 1870. On the Elasmosaurus platyurus of Cope. American Journal of Science, ser. 2, 49(147):392.

Leidy, J., 1870. On Discosaurus and its allies. Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, 50(148):139-140.

Moodie, R. L., 1912. The "stomach stones" of reptiles. Science N.S. 35(897):377-378.

Williston, S. W., 1890. Structure of the plesiosaurian skull. Science 16(407):290.

Williston, S. W., 1893. An interesting food habit of the plesiosaurs. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 13:121-122, 1 plate.

Williston, S. W. 1894. A food habit of the plesiosaurs. The American Naturalist 28(325):50.

Williston, S. W., 1898. Addenda to Part I. The University Geological Survey of Kansas, 4:28-32. (A brief history of fossil collecting in the Niobrara Chalk prior to 1900)

Williston, S. W., 1904. The stomach stones of the plesiosaurs.

Williston, S. W., 1914. Water reptiles of the past and present. Chicago Univ. Press. 251 pp. (Free, downloadable .pdf version by the Arment Biological Press)